Neuro-Harmonizing Audible Feedback for Personalized State Induction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing self-help techniques for stress and anxiety management, such as regulated breathing exercises, are often met with resistance due to natural aversion and social stigma, limiting their effectiveness and accessibility.
Innovation Solution
A neuro-harmonizing system (NHS) that generates personalized audible feedback using a user's voice input to induce a target state, incorporating music and interactive elements to enhance engagement and reduce aversion, while allowing for social interaction and community involvement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional self-help techniques (e.g., regulated breathing exercises) are used for stress and anxiety management, then therapeutic effect is achieved, but user adherence deteriorates due to natural aversion and social stigma
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces music and audio content as an intermediary medium that delivers therapeutic effects without requiring users to directly perform traditional self-help techniques. The system uses audio feedback and music therapy as mediators between the user and the therapeutic process, allowing users to experience benefits without the stigma or aversion associated with conventional breathing exercises or meditation practices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical self-help techniques (manual breathing control, physical meditation postures) with an automated audio-based system. The system uses voice analysis, audio feedback, and music generation to deliver therapeutic effects, substituting the need for users to manually perform traditional techniques with an automated auditory intervention that feels more natural and less stigmatized
2Ease of operation
If personalized audio feedback is generated using voice input, then user engagement is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the user's own voice as input to generate personalized audio feedback, eliminating the need for external sensors or complex input devices. The voice analysis and audio generation processes are automated, allowing the system to serve itself by using readily available audio input from the user's device to create customized therapeutic content
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to work with standard audio input capabilities already present in most smartphones and devices, making it universally accessible without requiring specialized hardware. The same audio processing pipeline handles multiple functions including voice analysis, emotional state detection, music generation, and feedback delivery, reducing overall system complexity through multi-functionality
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AI summary
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a neuro-harmonizing system (NHS). In an illustrative example, the NHS may automatically generate a neuro-harmonizing audible feedback package to induce a non-therapeutic state. The NHS, for example, may receive an input signal from a user device. For example, the NHS may apply the input signal to a state prediction model to identify a current state of the user device. A set of target criterion, for example, may be generated based on the current state. For example, the set of target criterion including transformation parameters configured to transform the input signal into a new signal for inducing a dynamically generated target state based on a user profile. The NHS may, for example, generate an audible feedback package as a function of the input signal and the set of target criterion. Various embodiments may advantageously induce the dynamically generated target state.